MCU REVIEW: Doctor Strange

Episode 46 - Doctor Strange Movie Review

Everyone loves an origin story, right!?  So consider yourselves lucky, folks, because this week we look at the MCU introduction and origin of Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange! 

This Week In Comics

*Spoiler Story*

• CBR.com link withheld to keep spoilers secret. Find out at your comic book store in the new release section next week (May 31) in Amazing Spider Man #26

New on Marvel Unlimited this Week

• https://www.marvel.com/comics/calendar/week/2023-05-21
• 9!?!?! Different #1s debuting on Marvel Unlimited this week. 
• Daredevil & Echo, Jed McKay’s Avengers, Storm, Danny Ketch: Ghost Rider, Carnage Reigns Alpha and Murderworld: Moon Knight among them. 

Recommendation: Strange New Worlds season 1 on Paramount+

Film Facts

Tagline: Open your mind. Change your reality.
Released: October 25, 2016
Runtime: 115 minutes
Box Office: worldwide: $677,796,076 / domestic: $232,641,920
Budget: $165,000,000
IMDB Rating: 7.5/10 
Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams, Benedict Wong, Mads Mikkelsen and Tilda Swinton
Directed: Scott Derrickson
Screenplay:  Jon Spaihts, Scott Derrickson, C. Robert Cargill

2ish Minute Recap and Discussion Topics

Recap in parts with discussion

Science vs Mystic Arts 

Benedict Cumberbatch feels like Dr. Strange

Faithful to Comic Origins

Really solid humor

Trippy Special Effects

Tidbits 

From the comics 

Appreciating Wong

Face Off!

• Which Did it better? The Comics or the Movie

What's Next: Spider-Man: Homecoming

• Amazing Fantasy #15 
• Amazing Spider-Man #1, 2 
• Ultimate Spider-Man #1-7 
• Damage Control #1 2022 (just for background)

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